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   RW | Dec 19, 2005 08:16am | #1

   Make it horizontal to horizontal. Set your base where it's going to live, scribe a line where the bottom hits the skirt. Cut the skirt flush (great place for a multimaster if you have one) then set the base on top and return it, long point even with the break from horizontal to the rake angle.

   If you have the same thing at the bottom, your skirt should have been longer than you need for the taller base. There you can do vertical to vertical. Mark where the top of the base hits the skirt, and drop a cut plumb from there.

   "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain

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   wwilme | Dec 19, 2005 08:53am | #2

   That's along the lines of what I was thinking, but the problem is that the stinger is about 1 1/8" (5/4) thick and the speed base I am using is 15mm thick (about 5/8").  I can certainly do as you describe, then miter the OG profile at the top of the base and send a matching base cap down the stringer - that will look fine.  But I still have the issue of the thick stringer.  What you describe will leave a little 1/2" shelf (the top of the stringer where it is cut off horizontally and not quite covered by the thinner base) extending from the landing bullnose out to where the long point of the base meets the rake of the stringer.  What should I do with that?

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   RW | Dec 19, 2005 05:06pm | #4

   Yeah, to me thats not an issue. I'd take that reveal and like it. Not sharp of course. Little 1/4" RO would do wonders for the finished appearance. Some things you can match up dead nutz, some,"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain

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   Matt | Dec 19, 2005 03:38pm | #3

   I'm having a bit of trouble understanding your description.  Maybe it's because I think you are using the word "stringer" where I would use the words "skirt board".... Anyway, all the trim guys I have used don't use speed base on landing, or, elsewhere on the stairs.  Rather they use one-by and base cap.  This way the base cap used atop the one-by skirt board transitions nicely to the same type of materials on the landing, etc. 

   Edit: I just re-read you first post: when you say "landing" are you talking about a platform midway in the stairs that might accommodate a change in direction of travel up/down the stairs or are you talking about the area at the top of the stairs?  Sorry, I'm not too good at reading between the lines.

   
   

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   Edited 12/19/2005 7:46 am ET by Matt

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   wwilme | Dec 19, 2005 05:07pm | #5

   You are right - it is actually the skirt board I am referring to, not the stringer.  As far as the landing goes, I mean a 3' by 3' area which is one step down from the main upstairs hallway.  

   Even using 1x base (and separate base cap), you still have a 3/8" reveal where the bottom of the base meets the horizontal surface at the top of the 5/4" skirt board.

   I'll try to take a picture tonight and post it.